Extract from Meditation on the Mind Itself by Lama Thubten Yeshe

The gross levels of superstition are like these clothes. Each time you go deeper, deeper, you take off a
layer. You reach more subtle, subtle states. When your mind reaches the subtle point, maybe deepest
unconscious according to the western psychological view, so subtle that you touch reality, it is super
powerful. Because subjectively your wisdom is so unbelievably subtle, so sharp—to touch reality is
more powerful than a nuclear bomb.

Short text by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

"Each of us here possesses a physical body made up of bones, flesh, blood and such things. At present
we are not able to exert complete control over this body and as a result we always experience problems.
There might be a rich man whose wealth is equal to that of the entire world yet despite his enormous
fortune, if his mind is tied up in an uncontrolled body, he will live in continual suffering. Rich or poor,
none of us escape this problem. Try as we may, we never seem to find an end to our difficulties. If we
solve one, another immediately takes its place. The conflicts and suffering involved in maintaining our
physical body are the same no matter where we may be. If we have the wisdom to penetrate deeply into
the heart of this matter and check the actual way things are, we quickly perceive the universality of this
unsatisfactory situation. It also becomes clear that if we did not have such an uncontrolled body, there
would be no way for us to experience the sufferings related to it"